She's a little strange, that one.

29 | lesbian | midwest

[gonegrrrrrl-deactivated20200821]

Support the kids at the border

Chip in to a whole bunch of groups working to protect kids separated from their families by ICE.

Chip in to critical groups working to protect kids separated from their families by ICE:

Al Otro Lado - serves indigent deportees, migrants, and refugees in Tijuana & Los Angeles

https://www.alotrolado.org

The Florence Project - providing legal & social services to detained immigrants in Arizona

https://firrp.org/

Neta - a Latinx-run progressive media platform telling the stories of what’s happening on the border

https://www.netargv.com

Innovation Law Lab - working in immigrant detention centers and hostile judicial districts; keeping the definitive list of kids being held

https://www.innovationlawlab.org

Fuerza Del Valle - organizing workers & immigrant communities in the Rio Grande Valley

http://www.fuerzadelvalle.org/

The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights - promoting the best interests of unaccompanied immigrant children

https://www.theyoungcenter.org/

We Belong Together - women for common sense immigration policies

https://www.webelongtogether.org/

United We Dream - the largest immigrant youth-led network in the country

https://unitedwedream.org/

Womens Refugee Commission - advocating for the rights and protection of women, children, and youth fleeing violence and persecution

https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/

ACLU - fighting attacks through the legal system

http://www.aclu.org

Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) - protecting unaccompanied children who enter the US immigration system alone to ensure that no child appears in court without an attorney.

https://supportkind.org/

Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project - providing asylum seekers with legal aid and community support across the country

https://asylumadvocacy.org/

Human Rights First - helping refugees obtain asylum in the U.S.

https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/

La Union del Pueblo Entero - founded by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, a community union that works in the Rio Grande Valley from the grassroots up

https://lupenet.org/

[fairypage-deactivated20190421]

how many of you have heard of dame laura knight, who was forbidden from partaking in life drawing at the royal academy bc she was a woman and then undertook the ultimate power move of painting herself doing life drawing and submitting it to the royal academy’s summer exhibition

[fairypage-deactivated20190421]

the nude model was actually also a female artist (ella naper) who sculpted and made jewellery

[sapphic-matriarchy]

no offense but the legend of korra is very poorly written. 

[strangelesbian]

I just had a convo about this. I watched Korra because of all the hype about the ending. By the last episode I was confused as hell, because where was this relationship building? Entirely off screen. The end came out of nowhere for me and was jarring not because of their new found closeness but because I never saw the relationship grow. It felt like an afterthought thrown in.

I liked Korra as a character, but a large portion of the writing portrayed her as a bad guy instead of an angry teen who had every right to be because of her circumstances.

In the end I dubbed it "ok" and watchable, but they could have done her better. The original series did a much better job with characterization and relationship building, both platonic and romantic.

[supremelesbianoverlord-blog]

reblog if you’re a radical feminist/lesbian supporting/gender critical blog

i just made this blog after coming out as a radfem to my old community and being shunned into isolation. please reblog or like this post if you are any of the above and it is ok for me to follow you!

[strangelesbian]

If you want to join ICE protests that are (finally) happening in full swing, hundreds of them across the country are still scheduled for June 30th despite the executive order.

Look up your local ones. It only takes a quick search of "ICE protests" and the name of your state and you will be able to find info. There are 21 in my state alone. We have children here from the separation of families despite them being kidnapped in southern state borders. We have detained women here in a local jail and an ICE field office. I guarantee you do too.

Don't let the momentum that is finally here die, please.

If you can't make it I understand. Here is a post with more resources on how to help:

http://nicolayoon.tumblr.com/post/174986561396/resources-to-help-child-immigrants-fight-family

[strangelesbian]

heads up I'm going to switch this to an art blog based on lesbian positivity and fantasy adventure illustrations featuring them so I'll be deleting posts soon to clean it up

[fifthgradeconnectfourchampion]

They didn’t talk to one single lesbian before writing this did they?

[strangelesbian]

They can't let the straight women know about our great sex or they'll have some explaining to do.

[rabidracoons]

Stories Focused on Detransitioning and Desistance Value Cisgender Anxieties Over the Reality of Trans Lives

Why does so much coverage fixate on such a small group of people?

Looks like they’re trying to get ahead of the inevitable backlash. And do they really want to say we can ignore small group of people? Because they’re not exactly a majority themselves…

[strangelesbian]

Punching downward at vulnerable people who they used to welcome without question. It's an insecurity thing they need to deal with. They've been pushing their mantra so hard the last couple of years, of course people are going to be interested hearing from detransitioners. I'm not sure what they were expecting.

[mtfselfdrag]

imagine thinking being forced into the “wrong” gender role is where the REAL harm occurs instead of just coming to the fucking obvious conclusion that all gender roles are harmful

yet another example of dumbass men thinking that because they fetishise traditional western femininity all women absolutely revel in the constraints that have been placed around us from birth

these men haven’t the slightest idea of what being female actually fucking entails

[gendercriticalsideblog]

“For many cis women the loss of a proper girlhood is considered tantamount to abuse”

The loss of childhood for “cis” women is usually because of abuse, what the fuck?

[auntiewanda]

I’d love to know what these guys think is a “proper” childhood for girls. I remember one trans-identified male’s screed going something like: “You got pretty Easter dresses and you got to go to prom” etc.

And it was like yeah your jealousy issues toward whatever female relatives you’re describing right now is no one else’s problem and not a universal girlhood experience, you clown.

Much like the last guy here who can’t put two and two together between being told “stop playing with girly/gay/sissy crap” and finding himself wishing he was a girl. 

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

My favourite parts of my girlhood was when I was treated as “one of the guys” instead of a weird girl. When I was allowed to catch bugs and snakes, when I was praised for catching fish with just my hands, when I learned how to climb trees and when I made it higher than anyone else. My least favourite parts? When I was forced into dresses, given dolls as presents and expected to play with them, when I wanted to dress as my favourite female character for Hallowe’en and then that was used against me to force me to wear makeup, when I caught shit for my curly hair because I was fine leaving it loose or just tying it back from my face, but my mother wanted me to “do something with it”, which led to hours of boring and often painful tugging and pulling as she fought to get a comb through it.

Interestingly enough, when girls are allowed to be “tomboys” it is not considered abusive at all. What is considered abusive? When boys are forcibly put in dresses and made to look and act like girls. I wonder why that is?

[strangelesbian]

I lost my girlhood when my high school aged brother molested me when I was 3 "because I was there" and I still have to see and hear about him to this day as if nothing happened. When my older cousin got sexually curious when we were 8 and 9 so I had to deal with forceful exploratory, and sometimes painful, abuse from a peer and mentally abused by him not to tell anyone.

But sure keep complaining that not being able to wear a dress is a disaster and paramount to not having a girlhood.

[always-only-women]

g i r l s   l o v e   g i r l s

[vampirecritical-deactivated2018]

happy pride to everyone attracted to the same sex ❤💜💙💚💛 we exist and we are strong and homophobes can die mad about it 💖

[cafeinevitable-deactivated20220]

Sleeping Beauty Woken by Snow White’s Kiss

Neil Gaiman’s children’s book, The Sleeper and the Spindle, is a richly illustrated collaboration with artist Chris Riddell that retells the story of Sleeping Beauty. But this time the princess is rescued not by a prince’s kiss, but by a queen’s.

[lesbianslovingwomen]

Celebrate yourselves and your sisters this Pride Month! Being a lesbian is a magnificent thing, and our identity deserves to be celebrated!

[lesbianegg]

Invalidating someone’s identity is a LOT less violent than physically beating someone up as a group. If you disagree with this I want you to take a good hard look at yourself and your politics and where this kind of thinking might lead.

[loving-women-is-rad]

Let it Grow

[rageclit-deactivated20181208]

Two nights ago, three trans activists ambushed and assaulted a lesbian at a gay bar in St. Louis.

The woman had intended to stay away from the gay bar, after referring to someone as female over a year prior, but was accompanying her stepmother to a drag show. Someone approached her to tell her she wasn’t welcome at the bar, and then involved the bartender, who told the woman to leave. She agreed, stepped outside, and was immediately assaulted by three female trans activists who had been waiting for her. 

They then gloated on social media about how much they enjoyed the assault, hoping they had ‘fucked up’ her face, referring to their victim as a bitch who ‘deserved it’, and even threatening future violence, although they have locked or deleted their accounts after realising that feminists had been retrieving screenshots (below).

This was three people who were ready and waiting to assault a lone woman after getting her out of public view and away from her family. That’s not “self defence” - that’s a planned assault, in my book.

[kittiesatemypronouns]

By the way, this is the bar whose bartender sided with the attacker afterward, and who earlier told the soon-to-be victim to get out because he didn’t want that “lesbian drama” in the bar.

http://www.greyfoxstl.com/Home_Page.php

[medusasheart]

Well, maybe we should take a cue from the TRA Playbook– we need to figure out a way to get every Lesbian and Lesbian ally to mob that club’s Yelp page with bad reviews. Let folks know that this bar is not safe for Lesbians! 

[kittiesatemypronouns]

https://www.yelp.com/biz/grey-fox-pub-saint-louis

[fondan]

goals of pride month:

1. find a cute girl

2. marry her